Capturing translation processes to access metalinguistic awareness

Ehrensberger‐Dow, Maureen; Perrin, Daniel

doi:10.1556/acr.10.2009.2.6

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“…The focus of attention can be tracked as TPs or translators access and read through digital sources and their emerging texts. This is what transdisciplinary projects such as Capturing Translation Processes do (e.g., Ehrensberger-Dow & Perrin, 2009.…”

Section: Capturing Translation Processes: Revealing Translators' Use mentioning

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On, for, and with practitioners

Perrin

2018

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This article explains how research “on” practitioners can be turned into research “for and with” practitioners (Cameron, Frazer, Rampton, & Richardson, 1992, p. 22) by including these practitioners in the research teams. Methodologically, it draws on two decades of multimethod research and knowledge transformation at the interface of applied linguistics and transdisciplinary action research on professional communication (Perrin, 2013). Empirically, it is based on large corpora of data collected in multilingual and multicultural workplaces. First, the article outlines transdisciplinary action research as a theoretical framework that enables researchers and practitioners to collaboratively develop sustainable solutions to real-world problems in which language use in general and text production in particular play a substantial role (Section 1). Then, Progression Analysis is explained as a multimethod approach to investigate text production practices in natural environments such as workplaces (Section 2). Examples from four domains (education, finance, translation, and journalism) illustrate what value transdisciplinary collaboration between academic researchers and practitioners can add to knowledge generation in applied linguistics (Section 3). For the case of journalism in increasingly global contexts, in-depth analyses offer step-by-step understanding of the trajectory from a real-world problem to a sustainable solution (Section 4). The article concludes by suggesting empirically-based measures for research that contribute to the development of both theory and practice in applied linguistics (Section 5).

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Section: Capturing Translation Processes: Revealing Translators' Use mentioning

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2018

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“…On the other hand, experts were seen as those interpreters with enhanced metalinguistic abilities (Ehrensberger-Dow & Perrin, 2009), which could potentially help create more cohesive texts. It was believed more facets of the interpreting process were automatic for them, which freed up their working memory for other tasks such as identifying patterns and selfmonitoring (Taylor, 1990, p. 38).…”

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“…As reported in the literature, authors believed novices concentrated on surface structure features of a source text, such as grammar and vocabulary (Liu, Schallert & Carroll, 2004;Moser-Mercer, 2000). In turn, they seemed to fail at considering the function of a text or its meaning in context and so do not demonstrate meta-linguistic abilities, as experts were expected to do (Ehrensberger-Dow & Perrin, 2009;Liu, Schallert & Carroll, 2004;Moser-Mercer, 2000;Ronowicz & Imanishi, 2003).…”

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Cohesion in English to ASL simultaneous interpreting

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2014

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A study was done with 12 American Sign Language (ASL)-English interpreters to examine their use of cohesive devices while working simultaneously from English into ASL. Concern has been raised in the literature on spoken and sign language interpreters that practitioners create target texts that lack cohesion (La Bue, 1998; Langer, 2007; Sunnari, 1995). Halliday and Hasan's (1976) theoretical model of cohesion was used as a framework for this study. One aspect of cohesion was addressed, conjunctive devices. The participants included seven novice interpreters, who had seven or fewer years of practice with ASL and who were recent graduates of an interpretation program. In addition, five experts took part who had more than two decades of experience as interpreters and who were all nationally certified. Three Deaf interpreter educators rated each interpreter's fluency in ASL, and found the experts created more fluent texts than the novices (**p = 0.006). To understand why the Deaf raters found the experts more fluent, a number of basic language features in the interpreters' ASL target texts were compared but no significant difference was found in the number of signs created (p = 0.57), the number of unique signs (p= .074), signs per minute (p = 0.57), the use of third person reference produced manually (p = 0.46) or in the amount of information the interpreters omitted while interpreting (p = 0.361). There was a significant difference in the interpreters' use of conjunctive devices (**p = 0.007), where the experts produced more of them.

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“…The finished texts comprise TV news items ranging from 30 to 270 seconds. [45] The final product produced here is the rather short sentence: Writing processes can also be visualized by progression analysis as a path through the evolving text, as developed by Perrin [42,43,44], and used in various studies (see for example [46,9]). This representation is also used to collaboratively develop writing strategies together with writers.…”

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Learning from Errors: Systematic Analysis of Complex Writing Errors for Improving Writing Technology

Mahlow

2014

Language Production, Cognition, and the Lexicon

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In this paper, we describe ongoing research on writing errors with the ultimate goal to develop error-preventing editing functions in word-processors. Drawing from the state-of-the-art research in errors carried out in various fields, we propose the application of a general concept for action-slips as introduced by Norman [39]. We demonstrate the feasibility of this approach by using a large corpus of writing errors in published texts. The concept of slips considers both the process and the product: some failure in a procedure results in an error in the product, i.e., is visible in the written text. In order to develop preventing functions, we need to determine causes of such visible errors.

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Capturing translation processes to access metalinguistic awareness

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